Tess's Blog

Finishing up the school year and diving into summer.

2009-06-11T23:34:00.007-04:00

There's a bit of a gap of information since I haven't reported in since March. And there's a lot to say about shtaplers, monopoles, and chip board. But, it's summer already so I'll some pictures do the talking. Here are some pics from architecture and some pictures from summer so far. :)+ architecture midterm ++ clay creations; courtesy of desk neighbor, Julian ++ architecture final +<3 home <3+

Happy 5th Birthday blondegeek!

2009-03-14T01:06:00.001-04:00

Quick Addendum to Studio

2009-03-01T21:27:00.004-05:00

This was my clay wall. But it was too blah.So I mashed it and cut it and threw paper and chip board boxes at it until I got this.What a mess.But a fun mess at that.I promise, it makes much more sense on Sketchup.We'll see what happens. 0.o

Studio

2009-02-23T21:12:00.004-05:00

So, in that architecture class that I'm taking (4.111 - Intro. to Architecture Studio, see studio above) we've begun building models for our first project - building a reading and writing space in a 10' x 16' x 2' wall where a lush meadow meets a calm beach. The material we are "using" to create these spaces in the "heavy" wall is thick insulating foam wedged between two planks of plywood, so

Between subjects...

2009-02-15T21:45:00.003-05:00

- this title refers to either my on going conundrum of whether I'm destined to be a physics or architecture major or the fact that I'm totally procrastinating because I'm writing this instead of practicing my bass.Regarding the physics vs. architecture conundrum:So it turns out that majors have a lot of required classes, so many to the point that it would be quite difficult to double major.

Trekkerly Epic.

2008-11-20T19:13:00.003-05:00

My roomate has just made be aware of this glorious problem on the 18.01 (Single-Variable Calculus - for non-MIT folk) practice exam. Ka'blah!(click on the image to read)

The Autumn Leaves....

2008-11-08T23:47:00.007-05:00

...all jazz musicians, take your fakes books out now!Anyway, being from California, I have never seen the trees turn to such deep reds and yellows. So seeing stuff like this (see below) is pretty amazing. Once again, these are just photos from my phone, but they get the point across.

Well, Hello There.

2008-11-05T23:11:00.005-05:00

We've finally got a president and MIT has a four day weekend coming up. Exciting times ahead. Looks like I'll get more homework tomorrow. *leaps with joy*Hopefully, I'll finish up the book I'm reading (the Code Book) before things get busy again. Educational endeavors always seem to interrupt my leisure reading. Like I said, exciting times. Leading back to the novel, it's a zooming trip through

Itch.

2008-11-03T22:32:00.004-05:00

So for some reason, the past two weeks have been fairly light in workload. Probably a combination of tests scheduling in nicely and just not having a website to redesign. Because MIT has a 4 day weekend coming up and I don't have any work to do until Thursday, I've been going though options of what I can do with this spare time because I am itching to do something. Do I draw up dress designs, do

Happy November!

2008-11-01T23:32:00.003-04:00

Seriously, November came out of nowhere! I just looked at the calendar this morning and it said NOVEMBER! and I was like AHHHH! but YAY!!!! It's just a bit difficult to believe that I've already been at MIT for 2 months, the time has really flown past, but many people said that it would.Hope everyone's Halloween went along nicely. Some of my fellow floor mates and I went to "Spooky Skate" as it's

...but baby it's cold outside.

2008-10-29T20:46:00.003-04:00

Okay, so it's not THAT cold outside, but it's starting to get down there in degrees. My senses need to be recalibrated to Boston temperatures, southern California ones don't apply here (if they did, winter started a month ago).Speaking of calibrating! I've got a UROP now at House_n. (Okay, technically I should be saying I "participate in a UROP" since UROP = Undergraduate Research Opportunity

If you've seen these around MIT...

2008-10-20T23:38:00.004-04:00

...and you're here, then you're in the right place. Hello and welcome to blondegeek.net!*pictures taken with my pixelicious cell phone camera*

Oh! BTW...

2008-10-19T23:11:00.001-04:00

How do ya'll like the new site design?

Starting off the week.

2008-10-19T22:33:00.003-04:00

Well, hello there! I'm in my seventh week of being a frosh at MIT, and so far, so good. For fellow MIT peeps: I'm taking 8.01, 18.02, 3.091, and 21M.011. For non-MIT peeps (and for those who may not have been acquainted to 21M0.11): I'm taking Mechanics, Multi-variable Calculus, Intro. to Solid State Chemistry, and Intro. to Western Music. My upright bass is here with me in my dorm (sitting

Ciao!

2008-06-18T17:23:00.000-04:00

I'm heading off to Italy tomorrow to visit family, just 3 days after my 18th birthday and 2 weeks after graduation! Maybe I'll get to use that not so provisional and recently turned international driver's license of mine...probably not. They don't kid when they say that Italians are CRAZY drivers.New shirts are up! I do love seeing more boxes on the T-shirts page. Hope you like them :)Well, I'm

Back from MIT!

2008-04-14T17:26:00.000-04:00

Summary: Caltech was fun. MIT was awesome! Harvard...I have no clue!Two schools with totally different feels (and one that as I said up above, I have no clue about), and I can try to explain what exactly those two "feels", well, feel like, but it probably won't be the same thing that you would feel about the two schools and again it's a feeling thing and those things don't particularly translate

Hello from Caltech!

2008-04-03T19:07:00.000-04:00

Hey ya'll. I rolled in to Caltech around 1:30 pm, so far so good. Took a campus tour, met some fellow pre-frosh, chilled with some students, all that jazz (actually the Jazz Band doesn't play until 4:30...hmm probably should get going...). Anyway, this is just a small update (more to come) so here's a sample of the first batch of photos.The oh so famous canon.Of course.Ze library....& a very

electric charges are so q...ute (Party with the Coulomb)

2008-03-27T23:50:00.000-04:00

Okay, I finished 23-45 (the last semi-required physics problem I will do tonight), so it's time I payed attention to my website.So how have the past two months been?Great. Thanks for asking.So.I've got a few tees lined up in production and some that have been produced but not posted (I can feel your anticipation building up already...). They should all be ready before I head to Caltech and MIT

Taking Friday off.

2008-01-25T15:50:00.000-05:00

I just got out of school a little while ago and am siting at the brand new marble window counter at the local coffee shop (which fortunately has wifi!). Within the past fourty-five minutes off my school-ular freedom, I've managed to give a ride to a guy around my age who had taken the bus from Vista to get to his girlfriend's house a couple miles away from the bus stop, witness a man feeding his

Stick this!

2008-01-20T00:31:00.001-05:00

Call in the next 15 billion minutes and with every blondegeek tee you will receive a BLONDEGEEEK STICKER!!!Stack 1 of 6You can stick them anywhere!Even on sacred Mac objects!: )

Brushing bunnies

2008-01-17T00:11:00.000-05:00

If you're a fan of blondegeek on facebook, you've already been made well aware of this but because I am just so darn happy about this I'm going to say it again: my first facebook app is up and running! Unfortunately, I can not list it in the app directory until at least 5 people are using it but that shouldn't be a problem for too long...right guys?But besides scripting up a storm this afternoon,

Success!

2008-01-15T23:56:00.000-05:00

Alas! I figured out what was going hay-wire with my Facebook application code! Now, I can finish up all the program functionality and start on the aesthetics, which will be quite a task in itself.You know how the "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" peeps have their "You might be a Redneck jokes"? Well, today in school my mind wasn't really focused on school stuff but instead business: t-shirt designs, php

Tidying up

2008-01-14T19:50:00.000-05:00

Last week I spent some time filling in the little gaps and missing pieces that needed to be attended to around the site (EXCEPT THE INDEX PAGE - which I am convinced with ever be the bane of my existence *Mrs. Critchley pats me on the back for using a vocabulary word*). My blog now has a sparkly and shiny RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feed that you can post to your tripped out google homepage,

<<- (look it's a tree!)

2007-12-25T17:24:00.000-05:00

A very Merry Christmas to ya'll out there! I think it's just about one of the most amusing holidays out there since every family has there own traditions with decorations, food, family chaos, and such. As far as my family goes, Christmas was really a big deal when I was little (Although, I was always suspicious of this "Santa Claus" figure. I would leave a letter for him with his cookies and milk

Just another manic Monday...

2007-12-10T18:51:00.000-05:00

Here's an honest representation of what's on my mind.